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What weighs 24 tons, is carved from volcanic rock, and helped inspire a whole culture? The Aztec Calendar Stone is an ancient artifact of Mexico from the 15th century (Discover Kids). The stone is a calendar, well, actually two calendars that are suspected to have been used to predict solar eclipses (Discover Kids). The stone itself weighs 24 tons and is three feet thick with a ten foot diameter (Discover Kids). It was carved from basalt in 1479 and was found in 1790 under the Zocalo in Mexico city (Aztec Calendar Stone). The stone is now on the display at Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology (Discover Kids).
The first of the two calendars, the xiuhpohualli, is the 365 day calendar that tracks days and rituals (Discover Kids). Circling

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